Tag Archives: Nikolas Cruz

‘Please Do Something!’

How can a country that can’t handle a stupid tweet from Roseanne Barr possibly do anything about school shootings? We can hit the delete key on someone who has offended the wrong people, and make her disappear. We can’t do that with killers. We can’t even judge them too harshly. We offer them a seat […]

Our Hateful Gun Debate

And the Oscar for best killer goes to … That’s how it’s starting to feel in America. Our real-life, mass shootings with the dramatic cell phone videos and gripping narratives by survivors resemble violent movies. American popular culture long ago made violence cool. The proliferation of high-capacity weapons, far beyond what is needed for hunting […]